A US federal judge has ruled that there is enough evidence for families of the 17 sailors who died in the 2000 terror attack in Yemen on the USS Cole to pursue their lawsuit against the Sudanese government. US District Judge Robert G. Doumar said that there is a sufficient amount of evidence showing that [...]

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Former Abu Ghraib commander Janis Karpinski has alleged that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally signed a memorandum authorizing extreme interrogation techniques used at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison . In an interview with Thomas Jefferson School of Law Professor Marjorie Cohn published Wednesday on truthout.org, Karpinski said that when she first visited the prison [...]

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Senators Charles Schumer and Russ Feingold said Wednesday that they expected US Supreme Court nominee John Roberts to address why he chose not to recuse himself from the Hamdan v. Rumsfeld case before the DC Circuit challenging the Bush adminstration's position on the legality of military commissions when he was already being interviewed by the [...]

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David Radler, former President and COO of Hollinger International and former publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, will plead guilty to fraud charges, his lawyer said Wednesday. Radler was indicted last week on federal mail and wire fraud charges for allegedly diverting more than $32 million from Hollinger through a series of self-dealing transactions. Though the [...]

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